Free Speech
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'Rigged from the start': Bureaucrats face personal liability for firing 'Black privilege' professor
Judge denies qualified immunity to four University of Central Florida administrators including president, tasks jury with considering punitive damages. Two have moved on to Texas Tech, Yale.
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Professor punished for mocking 'land acknowledgment' on syllabus finds sympathy from appeals court
While University of Washington tells 9th Circuit it struck "perfect balance" between First Amendment rights of Stuart Reges and his students' feelings, judges suggest his punishment didn't match supposed harm to students.
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Key group in government censorship project boasted of suppressing Trump message, defunding newsrooms
Democracy Dies in Darkness? A new memo from the taxpayer-funded National Endowment for Democracy shows grantee Global Disinformation Index viewed silencing Trump and toxifying certain news outlets to reduce their revenues as a win. The policy spread to other federal programs.